The English poet WH Auden wrote, “Private faces in public places are wiser and nicer than public faces in private places.” It’s an awkward image – those public faces in private places – but South Australians better get used to it, writes Malcolm King.

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One of the Rann Government’s more idiosyncratic law and order policies – a recruitment strategy aimed at bringing British bobbies to Australia to bolster police numbers – has been officially abandoned more than a decade after it began.